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Word Meanings - SHACKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Stubble. Pegge.

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  • CHARGEANT
    Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
  • RESTRAINABLE
    Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
  • BURDENER
    One who loads; a oppressor.
  • CHAINWORK
    Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.
  • CHARGEABLE
    1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
  • CHAIN PUMP
    A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the
  • CHARGE
    1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
  • SADDLECLOTH
    A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.
  • CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
    A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
  • FETTERLESS
    Free from fetters. Marston.
  • RESTRAINEDLY
    With restraint. Hammond.
  • HINDEREST
    Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer.
  • SADDLE
    A block of wood, usually fastened to some spar, and shaped to receive the end of another spar. (more info) OHG. satal, satul, Icel. söedhull, Dan. & Sw. sadel; cf. Russ. 1. A seat for a rider, -- usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably
  • IMPEDE
    To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops. Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will. Logfellow.
  • SADDLE-BACKED
    1. Having the outline of the upper part concave like the seat of a saddle. 2. Having a low back and high neck, as a horse.
  • HINDERMOST; HINDMOST
    Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2. (more info) superlative from the same source as the comparative hinder. See
  • IMPOSE
    To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination. (more info) Etym: 1. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit. Cakes of salt and barley did impose Within a wicker basket. Chapman. 2. To lay as a
  • RESTRAIN
    restringere, restrictum; pref. re- re- + stringere to draw, bind, or 1. To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down;
  • RESTRAINMENT
    The act of restraining.
  • MANACLE
    A handcuff; a shackle for the hand or wrist; -- usually in the plural. Doctrine unto fools is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand. Ecclus. xxi. 19. (more info) manacle, L. manicula a little hand, dim. of manus hand; cf.
  • TOP-CHAIN
    A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away.
  • SHEET CHAIN
    A chain sheet cable.
  • SIDESADDLE
    A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
  • MISCHARGE
    To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
  • HOGCHAIN
    A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging.
  • ENCHARGE
    To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
  • UNSADDLE
    1. To strip of a saddle; to take the saddle from, as a horse. 2. To throw from the saddle; to unhorse.
  • DISENCUMBER
    To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.
  • OVERCHARGE
    1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
  • UNCHARGE
    1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.
  • BREQUET CHAIN
    A watch-guard.
  • SURCHARGEMENT
    The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. Daniel.
  • GUNTER'S CHAIN
    The chain ordinarily used in measuring land. See Chain, n., 4, and Gunter's scale.

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